Services

Indie TTRPG Services, Narrative Design, Game Design Consulting, and RPG Layout

At The Company Studio, we do not merely tell stories. We build the engines that create them.

We work with independent creators, studios, and visionaries who refuse to settle for acceptable. Whether you are designing your first tabletop RPG, rebuilding a fractured setting, or merging analog storytelling with digital tools, we operate as your silent partner: obsessive, precise, and invisible when required.

What follows is not simply an offer. It is a working agreement.

Structure the impossible. Make it playable. Make it unforgettable.

Game Design Consulting

We help creators transform ideas into coherent, engaging, and mechanically sound experiences. Whether your system feels chaotic, fragile, overcomplicated, or lifeless, we dissect it and rebuild it so it breathes.

What we do

  • Core system design and mechanical architecture
  • Resolution engines and probability tuning
  • Character creation flows and progression structures
  • Balancing asymmetry, risk, and consequence
  • Tone and mechanics alignment
  • Playtesting strategy and analysis

Ideal for

  • New RPG systems
  • Supplements and expansions
  • Rules rewrites and redesigns

We shape the shadows between your ideas.

Narrative Consulting

Worlds must feel alive. We help you craft settings that invite obsession, whether for a standalone zine, a campaign world, or a branching interactive narrative.

What we do

  • Narrative structure and campaign arcs
  • Worldbuilding and thematic layering
  • Factions, timelines, and political ecosystems
  • Tone crafting across dread, absurdity, wonder, and humor
  • Naming conventions, lexicons, and cultural identity

Ideal for

  • RPG settings
  • Narrative games and interactive fiction
  • Expansions and lore development

Manuals are sacred grimoires. Treat them as such.

Layout and Print-Ready Design

Layout is where clarity, beauty, and structure meet. We design books that feel like objects of power. Functional, readable, and atmospheric.

What we do

  • Full manual layout for digital and print
  • Print-ready book design
  • Card and deck layout
  • Typography and visual rhythm
  • Integration of traditional or AI illustration
  • Bilingual layout support

Ideal for

  • Core rulebooks
  • Zines, supplements, and expansions
  • Cards and components

We become the department you do not have.

Development Outsourcing

When you need specialists without expanding permanent structure, we integrate quietly into your workflow.

What we provide

  • System design specialists
  • Narrative writers and flavor text
  • Editors and sensitivity readers
  • Prototype and component designers
  • TTRPG-focused project management

Ideal for

  • Indie studios expanding capacity
  • Projects needing specialist support
  • Teams requiring silent integration

You created a world. Now guide players to its gates.

Game Marketing Strategy

We help indie creators cut through the noise with identity, clarity, and presence without sacrificing artistic vision.

What we do

  • Positioning and brand identity for TTRPG projects
  • Campaign strategy and communication tone
  • Social content planning
  • Crowdfunding campaign consulting
  • Community growth strategies

Ideal for

  • First-time launches
  • Crowdfunding campaigns
  • Audience growth and visibility

Extend your world. Digitally. Elegantly.

Web and App Development

We build digital tools that expand the experience rather than dilute it.

What we do

  • Atmospheric landing pages and websites
  • Digital character sheets and online tools
  • Mobile and tablet companion apps
  • Tools for VTT, AR, or hybrid play
  • Infrastructure built for narrative ecosystems

Ideal for

  • Digital companion tools
  • Identity-focused websites
  • Hybrid physical and digital play

We work with independent creators, studios, and visionaries who refuse to settle for acceptable. Whether you are designing your first tabletop RPG, rebuilding a fractured setting, or merging analog storytelling with digital tools, we operate as your silent partner: obsessive, precise, and invisible when required.

You have a world to build. We’re already inside it.

Services | The Company Studio